Stanley Cooper Poems

At 80 plus we’re not reflexive
We’ve lost that quick and easy way
Our speedy movements are less excessive
We’re slow as turtles, to our dismay
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The Writ Of Habeus Corpus, we have no more
This Bush Administration kicked it out the door
One more put down of our Bill Of Rights
When will our citizens wake up and see the light? ! ! !
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St. Peter at the Golden Gate
Explained, for me it’s much too late
That Heaven’s gate, without a doubt
Was built right there to keep me out
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Without commercials, they seem to think
We wouldn’t know what drinks to drink
We wouldn’t know what cars to drive
They don’t believe we could survive
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Ponce de Leon looked high and low
In Florida, of all places
He searched for it so long ago
But could find no Fountain traces
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Onomatopoeia-ticly speaking
Help words to be more vivid
‘Cause the speaker is generally seeking
To come across more livid
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Capital Punishment, a perverse way
To execute one’s moral beliefs
It runs counter to those who pray
Who espouse forgiveness relief
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In war-time there’s a ‘class’ hiatus
Snobbish rules are set aside
Low class citizens attain the status
That is, in peace, for them denied
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Some things written with tongue-in-cheek
Misunderstood can cause some pique
If someone who is humorless
Fails to see your fun finesse
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Recall America's huge robust middle-class
From the good old days that didn't last
Once hard-working, now jobless, they can't subsist
Our nation's middle-class strength no longer exists
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